Rolls Royce to Design Ship That Carries Fish as Passengers

From Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine:

Building a ship to carry fish as passengers may seem like a phenomenal case of missing the point, but Rolls-Royce has signed a £5.8 million (US$9.5 million) contract to design and equip one that does just that. The live fish carrier will be built by Turkey's Tersan shipyard for the Faroese salmon farming company Bakkafrost as a way to carry fish from their pens to the processing plant. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, salmon farming has grown by a factor of ten since 1982. This is great news for people who love salmon, but also exacerbates a logistical problem. The rivers, estuaries, and fjords that are best suited for salmon pens are often in locations that are less than ideal for siting a processing plant, so bringing in farmed salmon can face the same difficulties as transporting wild-caught ones from fishing grounds.

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